Swedishprosecutors filed charges on 31 January 2008 against Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Peter Sunde, who ran the site; and Carl Lundström, a Swedish businessman who through his businesses sold services to the site. The prosecutor claimed the four worked together to administer, host, and develop the site and thereby facilitated other people's breach of copyright law. Some 34 cases of copyright infringements were originally listed, of which 21 were related to music files, 9 to movies, and 4 to games.[2] One case involving music files was later dropped by the copyright holder who made the file available again on the website of The Pirate Bay. In addition, claims for damages of 117 million kronor (US$13 million) were filed.[4] The case is decided jointly by a judge and three appointed laymen.[5][6]

The trial started on 16 February 2009 in the district court (tingsrätt) of Stockholm, Sweden. The hearings ended on 3 March 2009 and the verdict was announced at 11:00 AM on Friday 17 April 2009: Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were all found guilty, and sentenced to serve one year in prison and pay a fine of 30 million SEK (app. €2.7 million or USD 3.5 million). All the defendants have appealed the verdict.

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Let it be known that We the People of this land commonly known as CANADA, stand in recognition of the true principle that whenever a government abandons the purpose for which we have created it and even becomes hostile towards that which it was once a defender of, it is no longer a fit steward of the political power that is inherent in the people and lent to this government with strict conditions. These conditions are defined in the Canadian Bill of Rights, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Constitution Act of 1982. Furthermore, to the extent that our government violates these conditions, they nullify their own authority. At which point it is our right and duty to entrust this power to new stewards who will not depart from the laws that we have give them. This being the case let it be known; that should our government seek to tax, restrict or otherwise impose on any of the rights that should not be infringed, thus impairing our ability to exercise our God given rights to life, liberty, property and defend against such impairments, which precedes all human legislation and is superior to it, that the duty of us good and faithful people will not be to obey them but to alter or abolish them and institute new governments laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to us shall seem most likely to affect our safety and happiness.